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Round the World

THAI PEOPLE’S ARMED FORCES:

New Victories

Led by the Communist Party of Thailand, the Thai
people’s armed forces scored new successes in the latter part of September and early
October.

In north Thailand’s Chieng Rai Province, the people’s
forces launched several assaults against the enemy while repulsing his offensives. On
September 17, they attacked the Thanom clique’s military-police posts in Toeng District,
killing and wounding many enemies. The people’s forces broke through enemy encirclement
many times. At the end of September, they attacked enemy positions in the Phan District.
On three occasions between September 30 and October 6, they ambushed and attacked the
enemy in Chieng Khan District, handing him a heavy blow.

The Thanom clique admitted that, from September 30 to
October 5, the people’s forces in Udorn Thani Province in northeast Thailand made three
attacks on military-police positions in the Muang Udorn Thani (a district under direct
provincial administration) and Nong Bua Lampu Districts. In the same period, they also
attacked military-police positions in Nakorn Phanom and Sakol Nakorn Provinces.

In south Thailand, the Thanom clique sent large numbers
of troops and police and, in collaboration with the Rahman clique of “Malaysia,”
frantically suppressed the people’s forces and the people in the border areas. However,
they were hit hard by the people’s forces. For instance, on September 29, the police
suffered losses in a fierce attack by the people’s forces.

The people in the central province of Phitsanulok, who
have long suffered the Thanom clique’s cruel oppression and exploitation, have risen up
in revolutionary armed struggle. Showing great power from the start, their armed forces
punished a reactionary village head in Nakorn Chi District on September 30 and dealt the
reactionary police who came to suppress them telling blows.

The development of the people’s armed struggle has
thrown U.S. imperialism and its lackey, the Thanom clique, into a panic. In September,
U.S. ambassador to Thailand Unger surveyed the defeats of the U.S. and Thai reactionaries
in Loei Province in the northeast and made further deployments aimed at suppression. On
October 4, together with the head of the U.S. military advisory group and Thawee Chullasap,
chief of the general staff of Thailand’s reactionary forces, Unger went to Surat Thani
Province in the south where they engaged in various activities.

However, no amount of frantic struggles by U.S.
imperialism and its Thanom clique stooge can stem the surging side of the Thai people’s
patriotic armed struggle.